Treatments / Hair restoration
FUE, DHI and Sapphire FUE performed by consultant surgeons in accredited hospitals — with a graft plan, a fixed price and a named surgeon agreed in writing before you fly.
Choose the technique
Any clinic that recommends a technique before seeing your donor area is selling, not advising. Here is the honest comparison — then let our surgeon tell you which one your head actually needs.
| Technique | With us, all-in | Typical UK price | Best suited to | Back to work | Shaving | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FUE | £1,750 – £2,600 | £5,000 – £8,500 | Large areas, crown coverage, up to ~4,500 grafts | 7 – 10 days | Full shave usually required | Full detail |
| DHI | £2,200 – £3,200 | £6,000 – £10,000 | Hairlines, density between existing hair, women | 7 – 10 days | Often unshaven or partial | Full detail |
| Sapphire FUE | £2,000 – £2,900 | £5,500 – £9,000 | High-density work, faster healing, fine hair | 5 – 8 days | Full shave usually required | Full detail |
£1,750 – £2,600vs £5,000 – £8,500 in the UK
Follicular units are extracted one by one with a micro-punch and placed into channels opened beforehand. The workhorse technique — highest graft volume in a single session and the lowest cost per graft.
£2,200 – £3,200vs £6,000 – £10,000 in the UK
A Choi implanter pen opens the channel and places the graft in one movement. Grafts spend less time outside the body and can be threaded between existing hairs — which is why it is the technique of choice for a receding hairline you do not want shaved.
£2,000 – £2,900vs £5,500 – £9,000 in the UK
FUE performed with sapphire-tipped blades rather than steel. The channels are narrower and smoother, which means less tissue trauma, denser packing and visibly faster scab clearance.
Prices are all-inclusive of surgery, hospital, hotel, transfers, interpreter and medication, and vary with the graft count agreed after assessment. UK figures are typical private clinic ranges published in 2026, shown for orientation.
Cost by country
Select your country to see the difference against a comparable procedure arranged through us. The figures below are for a 2,500-graft session by a consultant surgeon — not a technician-run package.
Consultant-led London clinics, 2,500 grafts, excluding follow-up
Clinic rent, salaries and insurance in Istanbul run at a fraction of London's. The punches, blades and sterile consumables are the same certified products.
A busy Istanbul surgeon performs more hair cases in a month than most UK clinics do in a year. Fixed costs are spread across far more procedures.
Elective cosmetic surgery is self-pay everywhere, but the UK carries far higher indemnity, regulatory and marketing overheads per case.
Costs are incurred in Turkish lira and quoted to you in pounds. We fix your price in sterling so currency movement is our risk, not yours.
Local price figures are mid-points of published private-clinic ranges for a 2,500-graft consultant-performed session in 2026 and are indicative only. They are shown for orientation, not as a quotation for any named clinic. Your own price is fixed in writing after assessment.
Before you book anything
A hair transplant moves hair; it does not create it. If the answer to these is mostly yes, the odds are strongly in your favour. If not, we will tell you — and we would rather lose the booking than give you a result you regret.
Several answers suggest surgery may not be the right step yet. Medical treatment first is often the better call, and we will say so.
Send photos for an honest assessmentThis is an orientation tool, not a medical assessment. Only a qualified surgeon reviewing your scalp can tell you whether surgery is appropriate.
What actually happens next
Almost nobody tells you about shock loss. Around week three the transplanted hairs fall out and you look, briefly, as though nothing happened. It is normal, it is temporary, and knowing it is coming is the difference between calm and panic.
Day 0
Six to eight hours under local anaesthetic, with breaks and lunch. You are awake, you can talk, and you go back to the hotel the same evening.
Days 1–3
Forehead swelling peaks around day two and settles by day four. Your first medicated wash is done at the clinic so you learn the technique properly.
Days 7–10Back to work
Crusting lifts with gentle washing. This is the point most people feel comfortable being seen again and can return to desk work.
Weeks 3–6Expect this
The transplanted hairs shed. The follicles beneath them are alive and dormant — this is the normal cycle, not a failure. Almost everyone finds this the hardest month.
Months 3–5
Fine, wispy hairs appear. Density is uneven and that is expected — follicles do not wake up in unison.
Months 6–9
Roughly 60–70% of the final result. Hairs thicken, texture normalises, and you can cut and style it as usual.
Months 12–18Final review
Full density and maturity. This is the point at which we photograph your result and, with your consent, publish it.
The package
Cheap packages get cheap by unbundling. Read the two columns below against any other quote you are holding — the difference is almost always in the right-hand one.
If the clinic asks you for money on the day for anything on the left-hand list, do not pay it. Call your coordinator — we settle it, not you.
Hair transplant questions
Short, direct answers. If yours is not here, message us — a coordinator replies, not a bot.
It depends on the area you want covered and the density of your donor region, not on what you would like to spend. As a rough guide: a receding hairline is often 1,500–2,500 grafts; hairline plus mid-scalp 2,500–3,500; adding crown coverage 3,500–4,500. Anyone quoting a number before seeing photographs is guessing.
The anaesthetic injections are the uncomfortable part and last a few minutes. After that you feel pressure but not pain. Most people find the second night, when the anaesthetic has fully worn off and swelling starts, the least pleasant — painkillers handle it comfortably.
For about ten days, yes — there will be redness and small scabs. After that, done well, no. The giveaways of bad work are a hairline that is too low, too straight and too dense at the front, and visible pitting. Those are design decisions, which is why the surgeon matters more than the technique.
Possibly, and we would rather say so now. If you are in your thirties and still losing native hair, a second session in five to ten years is common — not because the first failed, but because the loss around it continued. This is why we discuss long-term donor management, not just today's result.
For FUE and Sapphire FUE, almost always — the surgeon needs clear access to the donor area. DHI can often be performed unshaven or with only the donor strip trimmed, which is why it is popular with people who cannot take visible downtime, and with women.
Surgery moves existing hair; medication slows further loss. For many patients the right plan is both, and for some — particularly early diffuse thinning — medication alone is the correct first step and we will tell you that rather than sell you an operation.
Hair taken from the back and sides is genetically resistant to the hormone that causes pattern loss, so transplanted follicles are permanent. What is not permanent is the hair around them, which is why timing and long-term planning matter.
Physically yes, but we do not recommend it. Staying for the first medicated wash on day three means the technique is taught to you properly and the surgeon reviews the graft placement before you leave. That is why three nights is the standard package.
You send photographs at each scheduled review and your surgeon assesses them. If growth at twelve months falls materially short of the agreed plan and a revision is clinically indicated, the partner clinic performs it at no surgical cost and we arrange the return trip. That is in your contract, not a verbal promise.
No deposit, no obligation
Two clear photographs of the front and top of your head, and one of the back. A consultant surgeon reviews them, we come back with a graft estimate, a fixed all-inclusive price and an honest view on whether it is worth doing at all.
